{"id":7048,"date":"2016-07-21T19:59:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T19:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=7048"},"modified":"2020-02-07T15:56:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T15:56:22","slug":"guerrilla-girls-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2016\/07\/21\/guerrilla-girls-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg exhibition shines in Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7207\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/tina-and-GG.jpg\" alt=\"tina-and-GG\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>World-renowned feminist art activists the Guerrilla Girls recently \u201ctook over\u201d Minneapolis and St.\u00a0Paul to celebrate their 30th anniversary. Augsburg College was among more than two dozen arts and cultural institutions that hosted exhibits and events highlighting gender and race inequalities and promoting artistic expression.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The Guerrilla Girls, who wear gorilla masks and use the names of famous female artists as pseudonyms, were on campus for the opening reception of \u201cReconfiguring Casta,\u201d a site-specific installation for the Christensen Center Art Gallery. Combining prints and paintings, artist <strong>Maria Cristina Tavera<\/strong> addressed the social concept of race and the issue of socio-racial classifications. Tavera, known on campus as \u201cTina,\u201d also serves as the director of Augsburg\u2019s McNair Scholars program, which seeks to increase graduate degree awards for students from underrepresented segments of society.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World-renowned feminist art activists the Guerrilla Girls recently \u201ctook over\u201d Minneapolis and St.\u00a0Paul to celebrate their 30th anniversary. Augsburg College was among more than two dozen arts and cultural institutions that hosted exhibits and events highlighting gender and race inequalities and promoting artistic expression. The Guerrilla Girls, who wear gorilla masks and use the names <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":7209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-7048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-summer-2016"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10130,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions\/10130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}